“While Europe appears to maintain more reticence embracing it, in America there is no question that work can only be discussed as a secular sacrament, with all the indignity one might expect from such a degrading genus. The Protestant qualifier… — J. Phillip Johnson Copy Share
“While Europe appears to maintain more reticence embracing it, in America there is no question that work can only be discussed as a secular sacrament, with all the indignity one might expect from such a degrading genus. The Protestant qualifier to Protestant work ethic long ago dissipated, leaving the peculiarly American artifact of viewing one’s wages as a moral reward,… — J. Phillip Johnson Copy Share
“Employers conversely view the work of their employees, and the employees themselves, as a thing that belongs to them as a personal possession. This… — J. Phillip Johnson Copy Share Image
“Work, thence identified as consistent, indefinite and systematic remunerative labor, foists its demands upon the employee and not the employer.” — J. Phillip Johnson Copy Share Image
“Work as a metaphysical act, the very “act of being” must be distinguished from labor; work as a remunerative economic invention must be distinguished… — J. Phillip Johnson Copy Share Image
